Lower Kids Anxiety: 8 Tips
1 in 8 children of any age are experiencing clinical anxiety, and many more feeling overly stressed. It's difficult to deny that our kids are facing an inordinate amount of pressure in…
Mental Illness in Kids: Warning Signs
Mental Illness in Children: Biggest Warning Signs: At support group, the older members tell me how lucky I am to have this information at such a young age. I did…
Functional Wellness
Discover the truth about how your mind affects your body. How your body affects your brain. And what you can do to keep the whole brilliant system working to your…
Difficult Emotions, How Teens Cope
Teens Coping with Difficult Emotions: Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me. ~ Childhood rhyme Whoever made up that rhyme is just plain wrong. Consider…
Childhood Depression, What Parents Need To Know
Childhood Depression, What Parents Need to Know about: One of the biggest myths about childhood depression (also known as pediatric depression) is that it doesn’t exist. However, depression is a real…
Biggest Myths | Girls and ADHD
Biggest Myths | Girls and ADHD: It’s only in recent years that ADHD is becoming better understood in girls and women. But we still have a long way to go, according…
Emma Stone to Discuss Mental Health
Great Minds Think Unalike Advertising Week: Academy Award winning actress Emma Stone sits down for a fireside chat with leading child the president of the Child Mind Institute. The Child…
Managing Problem Behaviors at Home
Managing Problem Behavior at Home A guide to more confident, consistent and effective parenting: One of the biggest challenges parents face is managing problem behavior on the part of children. Whether they’re…
Regulating Emotions – Help Children Calm Down
Regulating Emotions: How to Help Children Calm Down Techniques for helping kids regulate their emotions and avoid explosive behavior: Many children have difficulty regulating their emotions. Tantrums, outbursts, whining, defiance, fighting:…
Avoid Passing on Anxiety
How to Avoid Passing Anxiety on to Your Kids Help yourself, and them, by learning techniques to manage stress in a healthy way On a recent afternoon, JD Bailey was…